COGNITIVE TERMINOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AS A PROFESSIONAL WORLDVIEW UNIT

Abstract

The article deals with the study of the theoretical basis for distinguishing the category of cognitive terminological structure as a unit of professional consciousness. The study is based on a cognitive approach to understanding the nature of the term, namely, the statement that each term is aligned with a specific cognitive terminological structure, and each cognitive terminological structure is verbalized by the term.
The author gives the analysis of existing approaches to understanding the phenomenon of cognitive structure. Based on observations of linguistic terminological material, as well as the results of cognitive studies in various scientific fields, the author offers a new unit of measurement of a person’s cognitive space – a cognitive terminological structure and defines it as a unit of professional consciousness in which a fragment of a professional worldview is concentrated and which has a verbal implementation in the form of a term. The term is explained by the author as a word or phrase, which represents a fragment of a professional worldview through verbalization of cognitive terminological structure within a specific scientific discourse.
The mechanism of linguistic reconstruction of a cognitive terminological structure is seen as a process in which a certain term activates a system of concepts (scientific and unscientific) that enrich the explicit meaning of the term with a large number of implicit meanings and ontological representations of which are introduced into a specific array of empirical data; conceptualization in a specific professional discourse takes place, which ensures the theoretical organization of knowledge around the term and instant multidimensional schematization of intra-system inter-conceptual connections within this discourse, that leads to a concentrated fragment of a professional worldview through the established cognitive terminological structure. Such processes ensure the construction of the mental space of a professional worldview in which semantic structures as a result of the cognitive activity of a metalanguage user co-exist.